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The Drama You’ve Been Craving: Opera Philadelphia Explores Tosca at the Mann (for Parterre Box)

Opera is back, baby, and it’s good to be home!

I wish I could say it was a shock, but it wasn’t. The sad news that Philadelphia City Paper would publish its […]

In science and theater, timing matters. British DNA researcher Dr. Rosalind Franklin’s early death – at 37, from ovarian cancer – is […]

Though both the play’s title and the name of the fledging theatre company (Orbiter 3, here presenting their inaugural production) evoke space […]

By nature, I’m more contrarian than agrarian. I’d almost always choose indoors over out, and I spend many of my happiest hours […]

This little musical, a recent hit off-Broadway, is a chamber-sized murder mystery with a small cast. The character of police detective Marcus […]

Often when I see a new opera, I wonder about its future. Even some very intriguing contemporary works seem not to have […]

I discovered Company in 1970, shortly after its Broadway premiere, and the show had a profound effect on me. Listening to the […]

O, Passion – How I have tried to love you! Before I get to the Arden’s elegant, beautifully realized production – which almost changed my mind […]

Let’s be candid from start: Speech and Debate is about hookups – online and in-person – between older men and teenage boys. Not […]